{"id":169859,"date":"2025-12-01T21:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T21:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/169859\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T21:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T21:01:08","slug":"madhuri-dixit-weighs-in-on-deepika-padukones-8-hour-shift-row-opens-up-on-pay-disparity-with-male-actors-im-a-workaholic-hindi-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/169859\/","title":{"rendered":"Madhuri Dixit weighs in on Deepika Padukone’s 8-hour shift row, opens up on pay disparity with male actors: ‘I’m a workaholic’ | Hindi Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Madhuri Deepika Padukone<\/a> has been in the news ever since her exit from Sandeep Reddy Vanga<\/a>‘s ‘Spirit’ followed by the sequel to ‘Kalki 2898 AD’. Reports suggested that it was due to some of the demands of the actress like pay parity and also 8-hour shift. This led to a debate on whether an eight-hour shift is justified. Days after these reports, Deepika also had reacted to it. The actress spoke about it when she spoke about mental health in a chat with CNBC TV18, “By virtue of being a woman, if that’s coming across as pushy or whatever, then so be it. But it is no secret that many superstars, male superstars, in the Indian film industry, have been working for 8 hours for years, and it’s never made headlines!” Meanwhile, now Madhuri Dixit<\/a> who has been in the industry for more than three decades has reacted to it. The actress said during a chat with ANI, “So, I think to each his own. I\u2019m a workaholic. So for me, maybe it\u2019s different, but if a woman has that power and can say, \u2018Okay, I want to work these many hours,\u2019 then that\u2019s her prerogative, and that\u2019s her life, and that\u2019s how she wants to do it\u2026 Then more power to her.” She also added that she was working for 12-hour shifts during the shoot of her upcoming series ‘Mrs Deshpande’. During the same chat, Madhuri also spoke about pay parity. She said, “In any field, even in corporate businesses or anywhere, there\u2019s always pay parity. Everybody is struggling for that, and everybody is trying to state the fact that women should be paid more \u2014 not more than the actor, but at least somewhere, you know, where it\u2019s balanced.”Earlier, Rani Mukerji had also reacted to it and she had said, “These things are up for conversation today because maybe people are discussing it outside. But this has been the norm with all professions. I\u2019ve also done it where I have worked for certain hours. If the producer\u2019s okay with it, you go ahead with the film. If the producer isn\u2019t okay with it, you don\u2019t make the film. So it\u2019s also a choice. Nobody is forcing anything on anybody.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deepika Padukone has been in the news ever since her exit from Sandeep Reddy Vanga‘s ‘Spirit’ followed by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48898,4778,93,52872,61,60,7253,410,270,93963,26731,25835,5187],"class_list":["post-169859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-8-hour-shift","tag-deepika-padukone","tag-entertainment","tag-female-actors","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-madhuri-dixit","tag-mental-health","tag-movies","tag-pay-disparity","tag-rani-mukerji","tag-sandeep-reddy-vanga","tag-women-empowerment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}